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prayer before meditation
Father, you created
me
and put me on
earth
for a purpose.
Jesus you died for
me
and called me
to complete your
work.
Holy Spirit,
you help me
carry
out the work
for
which I was
created
and called.
In your presence
and name, Father,
Son,
and Holy
Spirit,
I begin my
meditation.
May all
my thoughts
and
inspirations
have
their origin in you
and
be directed
to
your greater honor
and glory.
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and difficulties
but remain open to God.
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their faith and intimacy
with God.
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Mark Link, S.J.Loyola University
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saturday / wk 13 / ord / july 5
wrong strategy
Jesus said, "You don't patch an
old coat with a piece of new cloth.
It will shrink and make the hole
bigger hole in the coat. Matthew 9:16
A cowhand had six drinks and
went to the cinema to see "The
Peril's of Pauline". Just as he
walked in, the villain was pursuing
the lovely Pauline. The cowhand
drew his gun and emptied it into
the villain on the screen. But the
only thing he achieved was to rid-
dle the screen with holes. Later,
someone said, "The guy's heart
was in the right place, but his strat-
egy was all wrong. If he wanted to
stop the villain, he should've shot
the projector--the source of the
problem--not its shadow.
How flawed is my strategy for try-
ing to turn my life over to Jesus?
Am I, perhaps, failing to attack
the source of the problem?
It is never too late to be
what you might have been.
Author George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
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week 134 - day 7
sunday / wk 14 / ord / july 6
how gentle am I?
Jesus said, "Learn from me,
because I am gentle and humble
in spirit. Matthew 11:29
The Welsh monk St. Malo was
working outside. He began to per-
spire. So he took off his coat and
laid it aside. At the end of the day,
when he went back to pick it up, he
discovered that a mother wren had
built a nest inside it. The saint's
gentleness gave him no alternative,
but to leave his coat in the field and
not disturb the nest. Some say the
story is a pius legend. Be that as it
may, it has a modern parallel.
Sometime ago, the newspapers
reported how a participant in a golf
tournament "gave up a chance to
win, because he would not play his
ball out of a thrush's nest."
These stories invite me to inven-
tory my own gentleness toward
people and nature.
You can tell all you need to know
about a nation by the way it treats
animals and beaches.
Frank Deford
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